Roxana-Mălina Chirilă

the piano demon

Gata cu prostiile :P

Ok, a trecut weekend-ul, m-am distrat cu prostii, e momentul să mă întorc la chestii serioase (apropo, între mine și laptopul meu nou, frumusețea asta de Lenovo, e o poveste de dragoste extraordinară).

Din soundtrack-ul de azi: Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Jimmy Hendrix.
Pe ordinea de zi: The Missing (titlu în lucru).

The Piano Demon [Story, Fantasy, Draft 1.03]

Author’s Note: This is another one of my infamously stuck-in-first-draft stories. One day I’ll actually edit it.

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The first time I saw her – really, really saw her, not just glanced at her as we tried our best to catch the back seats in the small university classrooms – she was at a piano. Maybe I’d never have really been able to notice her had it not been for that one, strange evening when destiny gently pushed me out of my awkward life and into hers.

If only children can be prodigies, then I wasn’t one any longer. I’d lived through my glory years at school, where I’d gone off and won prizes for art and English, maths and physics, running circles around classmates and less talented professors. Eventually, when push came to shove and I had to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, I hid behind some more studying, delaying that dreadful moment when I’d have to prove that not only was I smart, but that I was also able to do something. I chose English and physics as majors, convinced I could do both easily enough. I wasn’t right. I wasn’t very wrong, either. There wasn’t much of a personal life left between the two, but I took my exams with flying colors and dreamed of the day I’d win a Nobel prize. I don’t think it will ever actually happen, but even fools can dream.